© Big Switch Networks 1 Bringing Physical Network Automation and Visibility to VMware Virtualization Environments Adoption of softwaredefined data center (SDDC) technologies are accelerating as customers are realizing gains in agility and cost efficiencies, especially for private clouds. To further ease adoption, Big Switch Networks and VMware have partnered, allowing data center administrators unprecedented network automation capabilities. This strategic relationship enables private clouds based on VMware products to deploy new applications and workflows automatically across physical and virtual networks thus bringing additional visibility and troubleshooting to VMware administrators. Big Cloud Fabric – the networking industry’s only open SDN fabric designed to transform complex, expensive and proprietary boxbybox networking – offers customers agility needed for faster innovation, operational simplicity, and hyperscale economics. Data center administrators can now benefit from unprecedented physical network automation and visibility into: VMware vSphere® Server Virtualization Environments VMware NSX® Network Virtualization Deployments Organizations deploying VMware server or network virtualization solutions can now simplify operational workflows of the underlying physical network while reducing TCO with Open Ethernet switch economics. BCF Integration with VMware vCenter Big Cloud Fabric now supports VMware vSphere server virtualization by delivering the benefits of open switch hardware and SDN to the majority of virtual workloads in the data center. The BCF controller directly integrates into VMware vCenter™ to automate network application deployment on the physical SDN fabric. The BCF controller becomes a single point of integration with vCenter for an entire LeafSpine Clos fabric, significantly simplifying application deployment across virtual and physical networks. Integration of the BCF controller with vCenter also enables VM visibility, including VM mobility, directly through the BCF controller GUI. Integration of the BCF controller with vCenter provides Fabric Automation and Visibility including: Auto Host Detection & LAG Formation Auto L2 Network Creation & VM Learning Network Policy Migration for vMotion/DRS VMlevel Visibility (VMname, vMotion) VMtoVM Troubleshooting (Logical & Physical)